Yes to anyone who has all ready read this, silent tears is being reposted ,but with a few changes like; corrected grammar and spelling, and not mention the occasional change to places which I wasn't happy with the first time round but that's mainly near the end.
To any one who hasn't read this, this is silent tears a M rated fic. Containing Yaoi, KandaXAllen, a mild case of paedophile, and rape later on, So, if you don't like any of the above I wouldn't recommend it, sorry, but if you do please read on.
Disclaimer: Don't own D. gray-man.
Chapter 1: Poker
The air groaned under the weight of the thick tension that had built up over the past ten minutes, Allen kept the same calm façade that he always had in these situations. Lavi on the other hand was franticly biting his nails as he sat behind Allen, not quite sure how the young boy could stay so calm in such a serious predicament, if something went wrong it would all go wrong and that would be the end of it all, they would of ruined it for all of them, Kanda, Miranda, Lenalee, Allen and him self, they would have no option left. But what could possible go wrong they were in Allen's hands and when it came to this, Allen was the best he had ever known. The moment had finally come, Lavi wiped a bead of sweat away from his brow and waited to see what would happen.
"Call"
"I do apologize gentlemen but I think I'm going to have to take your money and leave" Allen laid down a straight flush in front of him and scooped up his winnings "Thank you ever so much for the game, goodbye, come on Lavi."
"WHAT! you little cheat" the man threw his cards above his head. "I'm going to cut you into tiny pieces you little shit!" one of the men who Allen had just cleaned out stood up and took a small hunting knife out of his belt then waved it threateningly at Allen.
Lavi knew that this was why he was there and stepped in front of Allen, taking his hammer out of it's case that rested by his hip all the time. "Now I really think that you should just let it go and walk away"
"Now why would I want to do that, I don't think you could even break a walnut with that pathetic hammer of yours" The large man took another step forward and squared up to Lavi, who looked up at the man which was a full head taller then him.
"I'm pretty sure that it could you do you a lot of damage, walnut head" Lavi replied inwardly proud of how calm he had managed to answer "so, we are going to leave and you aren't going to follow"
"Ooooooo" the man looked over at his friends "looks like the little pirates got some balls" he looked back at Lavi "shame he's not going to be alive much longer" he took a large swing at Lavi who ducted and activated his innocence growing his hammer till it was larger then the man standing in front of him. "What the fuck!" the man exclaimed standing dumbly and wide eyed at the hammer.
"Sorry about this" Lavi swung his hammer around his head and knocked the man right through the wall of the tiny little shed they were standing in. The other men stand up in shock and run over to there friend.
"Oi! you all right!" one of them shouted through the hole, all they got in reply was a series of groans. Lavi inwardly took a sigh of relief at the fact that the man was alive, he didn't think he would be able to live with him self if the man was dead nor would he be able to return to the order. Lavi and Allen walked over to the hole and looked out at the small huts and shacks that made up the mines that they had come to for what seemed like a very promising poker game. A few people had come over to see what was going on, a couple were even laughing.
"I think its time we go Lavi" Allen said as they turn to the metal door which used to be the only entrance to the shed. Lavi reached out for the handle when the door started to open making Allen and Lavi back away promptly from the large metal door, as it started to swing open.
"Have any of you seen Eeze?" the person entering said as he opened the door, he was a tall man with lightly tanned skin, wavy dark hair and thick glasses, he looked over at the two boys then the large whole in the wall "what happened here then?" the man asked in a smooth accented tone as he lent on the door frame, a small grin playing on his lips.
"Well you see my friend here he has just won a very fair poker game with the man who is currently laying on the floor out side." Lavi replied.
"Well if it's a poker game then he probably deserved what ever you gave him and more, he's always cheating people." The man lazily took out a cigarette and lit it "I haven't seen you round here before, you new?"
"No just passing through." Lavi replied quickly, there was something about this man that made him uneasy, he suddenly felt like he really wanted to get out of there, quickly. "well it was nice meeting you sir but we have to go and find a place for our friends and us to stay in for tonight so no time to chat."
"You need some where to stay?" the man replied taking a puff on his cigarette and watching the smoke coil away. "There might be enough room at ours for a couple of you, how many are there in your group?"
"Too many." Lavi replied even quicker then the first reply, bringing a small but unnoticed smirk to the strangers face "Allen we really should get going"
"Lavi I think we should take him up on his offer, that way we won't have to spend all our money on a some were to stay. There's five of us sir, I hope that's not to many."
"No that's fine, I need to find someone so you two go get your little friends and I'll meet you at the gates to the mine" the man turned as if to leave then turned back to them. "By the way, you haven't happened to see a small boy with a mask over his mouth?"
"What? No we haven't," he looks over at Allen and franticly whispers to him "I really don't think that we should stay with this man!"
"Lavi come off it, there will be five of us, that's five trained exorcists against a couple of normal humans, not a pack of Akumas" Allen faced the man again "Thank you very much we'll see you in a little while." and with that Allen and a protesting Lavi went out of the door behind the strange man and rushed of to meet the others.
"Five exorcists, this should be interesting" Tyki smiled to himself and walked over to the hole in the wall "HAY! Have any of you seen Eeze!?"
"You found us some where to stay, that's brilliant boys!" Lenalee jumped around with joy in the small clearing that they had met up in, just outside the mines. She was seriously bored with camping and acting generally like a homeless person which is what they had been doing for the last month.
"… but I really don't like the look of one of the guys we're staying with, I really think he is bad news." Lavi complained again while he shuffled his feet on the dusty ground.
"Look Lavi you have no reason not to like this man, he has been kind enough to let us stay with them so don't mess this up" Allen was quickly becoming bored of Lavi's moaning.
"The bean sprouts got a point" Kanda added, "his feeble little frame is to weak to live outdoors for much longer"
"Kanda don't be mean to Allen-kun" Lenalee hid her smirk well. "If we are going to meet …. What was his name?"
"I... um... I don't think I asked" Allen looked mildly ashamed at the fact that he had taken up the man's offer and not even asked his name.
"See I told you that's a bad omen!"
"Shut up Lavi" Allen snapped "it doesn't matter anyway, but if we are going to go we really should get there quickly, it will be getting dark soon" and with that the five of them left to meet Tyki at the gate to the mine.
Within a couple of minutes they had reached their destination and leaning lazily against the gate casually smoking a cigarette was the tall Portuguese man they had met earlier.
"So you decided to join me then?" the man smiled lazily "I would of thought that the little red head was going to convince you other wise." He smiled at the large group on exorcists that walked up to him.
"Don't worry if I had my way we would be long gone by now" Lenalee nudged Lavi harshly making him go of balance for a moment
"Don't Lavi, sorry about him sir, we are all very grateful for letting us stay, Lavi included." Lenalee added with a sweet smile. She would be so easy to brake Tyki thought to him self.
"Well no harm done young miss, come this way and I will show you to the mansion." he said in manner more befitting a lord. The man flicked his cigarette away and walked of thought the gate while Allen and Lavi shot each other a confused look.
They followed him to a what can only be described as a disused rail way shed with a small paper sign on the outside written in childish hand writing proclaiming the shed as "THE MANSION" Inside they where greeted buy the smell of sausages and tea being cooked on a small fireplace in the centre of the room filling the high ceiling with smoke. Three figures, two adults and one child, huddled around it, soaking up the warmth.
"Hay Tyki, so your company did come in the end" one of the men called over to them, something about the name that was just said made an icy chill slide down both Allen and Lavi's back, but they could not figure out why, Allen just put it down to coming out of the cold air outside into the heated warehouse.
"Didn't I tell you they would come" Tyki laughed as he flopped down on to the ground next to the fire. "Come on don't be shy" he called out to the exorcist that were still huddled by the door. "I bet your hungry, lucky we have enough food here to feed an army" and with the mention of hot food Allen was sitting down on his coat next to the fire, waiting for some thing to eat. He was quickly joined by Lenalee then Miranda and then Lavi, however Kanda made no move to sit down with the group and instead opted for standing behind the exorcists waiting for the Akuma attacks that he was always ready for.
"So what brings you around these parts?" one of the men asked
"Well we are members of the black order and we're trying to make our way home" Allen replied in between his sixth and seventh sausage.
"The black order? I think I've heard of that, isn't that part of the catholic church, or something?" the other man asked.
"Yep" Allen took another sausage "this may sound a bit funny but we are fighting a war at the moment against demons created from the dead and their loved one's."
The man whistled "You don't say. Well if that's true aren't you a bit young, I mean how is a little boy like you , no offence, suppose to take on a army on demons it just wouldn't make sense, now would it?
"We are all equipped with a special weapon called innocence, and this allows us to the fight the demons and their master" Lenalee added as she sipped her cup of tea "are you not eating anything Kanda?"
"I'm not hungry"
"Are you sure? You have barely eaten in days and your starting to look more anorexic then usual."
"Very sure" Kanda remained stubborn, as usual, he'd be dammed if he was going to eat food cooked by complete strangers and the fact that they could afford that amount of food with the little amount of money they probably earn working in this dump defiantly started to ring alarm bells in Kanda's head.
"can I have his share?" Allen added sheepishly from the side
"Of course we have well over enough to go around all of us twice" one of the vagabonds laughed making Kanda think that that was his cue to ask a few questions of his own.
"So how come a group of miners living in a disused train shed around a camp fire like your self's can afford all this food any way?" Lenalee looked at Kanda in shock not only from the sheer rudeness of the question, which is not entirely unusual for Kanda, but also from the fact that by her reckoning that was the most Kanda had said in a long time, long out burst of speech being very unusual for Kanda.
"Well we have good old Tyki to thank for that and the extra work he gets, you get paid double what we get paid in a month don't you Ticky?" the man playfully nudges the dark haired man, who is now leaning back on a old crate with a fresh cigarette hanging from the corner off his mouthy.
"It's not quite three times"
"He's just being modest its probably more then three times" the other man cut in.
"Really?! What is this extra work then?" Allen asked with a mouth full of sausage and tea slush.
"It's nothing really, it doesn't matter anyway… so you really fight demons?"
"There's not point asking him, he won't even tell us!" one on the men pouted
"Yer, he can't even let us get in on it" the other adds. "He's so selfish!" the three men laugh there it was obviously an inside joke that the exorcists didn't get.
The short list of suspicious thing building up in Kanda's head was gradually getting longer, he was going to have to say something more direct to the others before they end up in the trap that Kanda was certain was coming. However Lavi had beaten him to it him to the punch.
"Why can't you tell us what your extra work is?" Lavi asked with an innocent smile.
"I just can't, do we really have to keep going on about this?"
"The boy has a point Ticky why can't you tell us?"
Tyki had taken a disliking to the young red head, if he wasn't careful he could loose an amazing chance to take out five exorcists, and loose his only link back to his human side. And not to mention on top of that this new nick name was also bugging him.
"Look people can we just eat our food and drop the subject, please" the two men could tell that the normally carefree, calm Tyki was slowly disappearing and decided to just avoid his gaze and eat their food. The exorcist on the other hand shared a worried look with each other, the universal sign for we are going to have to talk about this later.
The evening passed pleasantly, idly chit chatting about nothing of any importance including several conversations ending in the full gone conclusion that Allen is in fact gay for anything that moves and Kanda.
The two men had fallen asleep on the floor next to the fire and Eeze was dosing on Tyki's lap who it looked like had drifted of his head hanging down so that his mass of wavy hair covered his face. Kanda took this for the best moment to have a word with his fellow exorcists about his concerns, but yet again Lavi had beaten him to it, this was starting to annoy Kanda.
"So what do we think of them?" Lavi started in a whisper as not to wake any one up.
"Well I think the little boy, Eeze I think they called him, is very sweet." Lenalee said, also in a whisper.
"You would think that being a girl, but that's not what I mean, what I mean is what do you think of the sleeping creep?"
"Lavi that's not very nice" Lenalee exclaimed almost forgetting to whisper.
"The Cyclops has got a point, there's something not right about him, it's almost like he all ready knew who we are and that were exorcist." again the whole group looked at Kanda in shock, another outburst of opinions both on the same day.
"But what proof have we got, other then, of course, the fact that Lavi and Kanda have a funny feeling about him" something about the way Allen said funny made a small spark of anger flash through Kanda's eyes.
"I bet we can find proof and then we will expose him for the level 2 that he is." Lavi proclaimed they were fast forgetting to lower there voices.
"You think he's an akuma?" Allen replied in a mocking tone.
"And why not? He could be one! All four of them could be!" Lavi couldn't understand why Allen wasn't backing him up on this, he had noticed Allen having the same strange reaction to the mans name as he had, hadn't he?
"Lavi he they would of tried to kill us by now if they were level two's, I've never seen one restrain its self for as long as we have been with them."
"Well what could they be then Mr condescending?"
"Human?" Lenalee offered up, Lavi, Kanda and Allen shot her an angry look simultaneously "I'm just saying that we are jumping to conclusions, I mean Allen has all ready pointed out they can't be akuma so what else could they possible be?" the rest of the group look down at the floor "You can't think of anything can you? Look you agree with me don't you Miranda?"
"Of course I do, these men have been nothing but nice to us and I think its rude for us to start calling them demons." she looked around the boys faces "w.. we… well that's what I think, you don't have to agree with me, my opinion doesn't matter, just forget I said anything I'm sorry" and she went back to her silence.
"Don't apologise Miranda your perfectly right, its these boys and their suspicious, paranoid minds. They've got bored of going on missions and risking there lives on a weekly basis so they are trying to find some other form of excitement" Lenalee said rolling her eyes she had known these boys for a long time and she knew how much all three of then craved excitement and danger, she also knew that Allen secretly enjoys being the martyr of the group but that was beside the point.
The bickering continued.
From across the room Tyki laid his head against the crate, faking sleep to absolute perfection. The group had been talking, arguing, for about an hour now and showed no sign of stopping. He had heard every last word and had finally worked out which lucky pair where going to join him in his games, it was only a matter of time now, but first he had to set the game rolling. How Tyki hoped that this would be good match and not over to quickly, for loosing out on such an interesting game would be such a disappointment to the Noah of pleasure. Tyki sighed in contentment and decided to sleep, drifting of in to dreams filled with the games he ached to play with his new friends.